On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 03:14:47PM -0800, Mario Smarduch wrote:
[...]
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> What I meant last time around concerning user_mem_abort was more
> >>> something like this:
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> >>> index 1dc9778..38ea58e 100644
> >>> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> >>> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
> >>> @@ -935,7 +935,14 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
> >>> return -EFAULT;
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> - if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) {
> >>> + /*
> >>> + * Writes to pages in a memslot with logging enabled are always logged
> >>> + * on a singe page-by-page basis.
> >>> + */
> >>> + if (memslot_is_logging(memslot) && write_fault)
> >>> + force_pte = true;
> >>
> >> If it's a write you take the pte route and
> >> dissolves huge page, if it's a read you reconstruct the
> >> THP that seems to yield pretty bad results.
> >
> > ok, then remove the ' && write_fault' part of the clause.
> Hi Christoffer,
> couple comments/questions.
>
> setting force_pte here, disables huge pages for
> non-writable regions.
>
hmmm, by a non-writable region you mean a read-only memslot? Can you set
dirty page logging for such one? That doesn't make much sense to me.
Note, that if you receive writable == false from gfn_to_pfn_prot() that
doesn't mean that the page can never be written to, it just means that
the current mapping of the page is not a writable one, you can call that
same function again later with write_fault=true, and you either get a
writable page back or you simply get an error.
[...]
> >>> if (kvm_is_device_pfn(pfn))
> >>> mem_type = PAGE_S2_DEVICE;
>
> If we're not setting the IOMAP flag do we have need
> this, since we're forfeiting error checking later
> in stage2_set_pte()?
>
we still need this, remember the error checking is about
cache == NULL, not about the IOMAP flag. I think I address this in the
new proposal below, but please check carefully.
Take a look at this one:
diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
index 1dc9778..841e053 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -919,6 +919,7 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
pfn_t pfn;
pgprot_t mem_type = PAGE_S2;
bool fault_ipa_uncached;
+ unsigned long flags = 0;
write_fault = kvm_is_write_fault(vcpu);
if (fault_status == FSC_PERM && !write_fault) {
@@ -976,8 +977,26 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
if (is_error_pfn(pfn))
return -EFAULT;
- if (kvm_is_device_pfn(pfn))
+ if (kvm_is_device_pfn(pfn)) {
mem_type = PAGE_S2_DEVICE;
+ flags |= KVM_S2PTE_FLAG_IS_IOMAP;
+ } else if (memslot_is_logging(memslot)) {
+ /*
+ * Faults on pages in a memslot with logging enabled that can
+ * should not be mapped with huge pages (it introduces churn
+ * and performance degradation), so force a pte mapping.
+ */
+ force_pte = true;
+ flags |= KVM_S2_FLAG_LOGGING_ACTIVE;
+
+ /*
+ * Only actually map the page as writable if this was a write
+ * fault.
+ */
+ if (!write_fault)
+ writable = false;
+
+ }
spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
if (mmu_notifier_retry(kvm, mmu_seq))
@@ -1002,13 +1021,13 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
if (writable) {
kvm_set_s2pte_writable(&new_pte);
kvm_set_pfn_dirty(pfn);
+ mark_page_dirty(kvm, gfn);
}
coherent_cache_guest_page(vcpu, hva, PAGE_SIZE,
fault_ipa_uncached);
- ret = stage2_set_pte(kvm, memcache, fault_ipa, &new_pte,
- pgprot_val(mem_type) == pgprot_val(PAGE_S2_DEVICE));
- }
+ ret = stage2_set_pte(kvm, memcache, fault_ipa, &new_pte, flags);
+ }
out_unlock:
spin_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
Thanks,
-Christoffer
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